New Naturalist
The Natural History of Orkney [and:] British Warblers
£479
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
London: Collins, 1985. 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, each with the dust jacket retaining Duraseal clear plastic covering as issued, Orkney with sliver of fading to foot of spine, spines of dust jackets sunned [Bernhard & Loe NN70A & NN71A]
Footnote
Note: First edition, first state of each work, numbers 70 and 71 and the two rarest titles in the New Naturalist series; 725 copies of each were printed.
Provenance: From the library of Dr Ian Durance Pennie (1916-2002), Scottish physician and ornithologist. Pennie was co-founder and vice-president of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club, and contributed numerous articles to journals including the Scottish Naturalist, British Birds and the SOC's own Scottish Birds. He spent most of his career in Sutherland, serving as the Sutherland correspondent for the SOC's annual Scottish bird report, and was remembered in his obituary as a 'major contributor to Scottish ornithology' (Scottish Birds, 2002, pp. 57-8).